Hat-fastener



(No Model.)

P. N. TRYON.

HAT PASTENER.

No, 437,878. Patented Oct. 7, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILO N. TRYON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

HAT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,878, dated October '7, 1890.

Application filed January 1 2, 1890- Serial No. 336,914. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILO N. TRYON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Ladies Hat-Fasteners; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a device for securing ladies hats upon their heads; and my invention consists of the improved fastener hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention, Figure l is a view of my device, showing the pins withdrawn. Fig. 2 is an edge view. Fig. 3 shows it attached to the under side of a hat-rim, with the pins withdrawn. Fig. 4 shows the pins in position to secure the hat upon the head.

In the present case I have shown a plate A, having holesB B made through it. This plate has a hinge or other flexible device 0, by which it maybe firmly and permanently attached to the hat. It will be preferable to employ two of these devices, one upon each side. Through the holes B in the plate the two-pronged pin D is fitted to slide freely. Near the point or end of the pin I flatten or enlarge it, so that it cannot be entirely drawn out through the holes B and lost, and at the bight or outer end the pin has shoulders or enlargements sufficient to prevent its being pushed through the holes in the plate in that direction.

When the hat is to be placed on the head, the pins are withdrawn as far as possible through the plates. The hat being adjusted, the pins are pushed inwardly, the plates being turned about their flexible attachments,

so as to allow the pins to pass in the desired direction, so as to enter the hair and firmly secure the hat in place.

The plate A has a spring where the joint or flexible portion is situated, and this spring is sufficient to hold it so that when the pin is withdrawn it will not hang down, but will be parallel with and close against the rim, as shown in Fig. 1.

The plates maybe made of any suitable or desirable form and adapted to be fastened to either felt or straw hats, the construction being such as to prevent the hat from being marred or broken by this attachment.

If desired, the device may be placed upon other portions of the hat, as at the front or back, the object being in any case to so place it as that the hat may be properly secured upon the head.

The spring in the hinge is made by the elastic pressure of the fold in the plate which clasps the hinge-pin. \Vhen the pin D is withdrawn from the hair, the plate A is bent out- I ward about its hinge-pin and the elastic or spring pressure holds .it, so that the pin will lie in a horizontal position close beneath the rim of the hat and out of the way. To introduce the pin, the plate is bent inward and the pin thrust inward into the hair at any angle desired. By this construction shorter and less dangerous pins maybe employed, and the body of the hatis not marred or its appearance spoiled by constant perforations made by the long pins ordinarily in use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved hat-fastening device consisting of the plate A, having a spring-hinge clasping a securing-pin by which it is attached to the hat, said plate having perforations formed in it, and a two-pronged pin adapted to have a sliding movement through said holes and provided with enlargements to prevent it being withdrawn from the plate, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

1?. N. TRYON.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, H. 0. LEE. 

